Macedon and Palmyra
The typescript of the list of deaths that took place in Wayne County in 1849 was provided to us by the Wayne County Historian's Office to help you better formulate questions when visiting the society or ordering mail searches. We all hope this list provides clues to ancestral location and surnames. If you recognize anyone on this list, please drop a line to Tim so it can be noted next to their listing.
As you scan the listings you'll see unusual spellings. They're not typos we've made but can be attributed to the original typist's interpretation of old handwriting, or assumptions made by the registrars of the deaths. If a spelling differs from that of your ancestral surname, or deaths didn't take place in the townships you thought your ancestors were from, don't pass them by. Jot them down...just in case. A date and location can be used to search in the 1850 census or the info may turn out useful to others searching your surnames.
During years 1847 - 1850 some New York State counties officially recorded information about births, marriages and deaths. Then they just stopped. Not all counties preserved this early information so each county, and township within it, must be taken on a case-by-case basis in making inquiries of societies. Required birth registration didn't start in New York State until 1880, over 30 years after the 1847 - 1850 events were recorded, and wasn't really enforced until 1900. New York State death registration wasn't required until just after 1900. Marriage certificates were issued in the 1860s but kept by the couple and written down by the person performing the marriage.
*** Official death certificates were not given in New York State for 1849.***
*** Neither the team who are assisting in preparing the township death lists nor the coordinators have further info on the persons named below. ***
MACEDON DEATHS 1849
| DATE | NAME | RESIDENCE | AGE | OCCUPATION | CAUSE OF DEATH |
| September 18 | Not Reported (female) N. | Macedon | 1 mo. | Not Reported | |
| July 23 | Mary Hill U.N. | Macedon | 12 | Spinal disease | |
| July 27 | Eliza Jones M.N. | Macedon | 40 | | Small pox |
| March 1 | John Easten M.N. | Macedon | 62 | Shoemaker | Consumption |
| June 8 | David Wilson U.N. | Farmington | 89 | Farmer | Old age |
| March 18 | Lydia Ann Smith M.N. | Macedon | 24 | Pleurisy | |
| June 17 | Samuel Coburn U.N. | Macedon | 37 | Shoemaker | Disease of the heart |
| July 9 | Maria Hoag M.N. | Macedon | 32 | Pleurisy | |
| November 15 | Clarissa M. Cook U.N. | Macedon | 12 | Consumption | |
| January 8 | Elizabeth Sedgwick M.N. | Rochester | 30 | Inflamation of brain | |
| September 10 | Mary Vosburgh U.N. | Macedon | 30 | Not reported | |
| May 7 | Elizabeth Allen M.N. | Palmyra | 77 | Inflamation of lungs | |
| June 16 | Geo. Dallas Phillipps U.N. | Macedon | 4 | Scarlet fever | |
| June 19 | Mary Phillips U.N. | Macedon | 1 | | Scarlet fever |
| July 11 | Nancy C. --- U.N. | Macedon | 2 | Scarlet fever | |
| May 15 | Zachariah VanDuzer M.N. | Macedon | 85 | Farmer | Disease of heart |
| May 31 | Washington J. Freeman U.N. | Macedon | 2 | Croup |
MACEDON DEATHS 1849: prepared by Debra Wiegand of Macedon, NY
PALMYRA DEATHS 1849
| DATE | NAME | RESIDENCE | AGE | OCCUPATION | CAUSE OF DEATH |
| January 1 | (female) Kellogg U.N. | Palmyra | 9 | ||
| January 22 | Eliza J. Butts U.N. | Palmyra | 1/4 | Scarlet fever | |
| January 26 | Mary R. Bradley M.N. | Palmyra | 37 | Housekeeper | Inflamation of lungs |
| January 27 | Allen R. Aldrich U.N. | E. Palmyra | 19 | Scarlet fever | |
| February 2 | Jas. A. Seely U.N. | Palmyra | 7/12 | Inflamation of brain | |
| February 7 | Eda Diana Raymond M.N. | Palmyra | 31 | Consumption | |
| February 8 | Frank Warner U.N. | Palmyra | 8 | Erysipelas | |
| February 10 | Henry H. Wilcox U.N. | Palmyra | 5 | Scarlet fever | |
| February 11 | Rhoderick McDonald or McDaniel M.N. | Palmyra | 43 | Mechanic | Delirium Tremens |
| February 11 | (female) Wolcot U.N. | Rochester | 2 1/4 | Scarlet fever | |
| February 14 | Mary Walton U.N. | Palmyra | 2 1/2 | Scarlet fever | |
| February 16 | (female) Possee U.N. | Palmyra | infant | Scarlet fever | |
| February 20 | (male) Norton U.N. | Palmyra | few days | ||
| February 24 | (female) Bortles U.N. | Palmyra | few months | ||
| February 25 | (female) Melliman U.N. | Palmyra | 3 | ||
| February 28 | (male) Pratt U.N. | Palmyra | infant | Scarlet fever | |
| March 4 | Mary A. Durfee U.N. | Palmyra | 7/12 | Congestive fever | |
| March 6 | Chas. Henry Ford U.N. | Palmyra | 1 | Scarlet fever | |
| March 7 | Delia Higby U.N. | Palmyra | 16 | Consumption | |
| March 9 | Mrs. Saloma Shirtliff | Palmyra | 72 | Housekeeper | Dropsy & diseased heart |
| March 9 | Catharine Horan M.N. | Palmyra | 34 | Housekeeper | Puerperal fever |
| March 11 | Johnathan Dart M.N. | Palmyra | 54 | Mechanic | Congestion of brain |
| March 12 | (female) Bowen U.N. | Palmyra | 5 | Measles | |
| March 15 | Cynthia Walker U.N. | Palmyra | 3 | Scarlet fever | |
| March 17 | Huron C. Sanford U.N. | Palmyra | 3 | Scarlet fever | |
| March 18 | Cora Crandall U.N. | Palmyra | 1 1/6 | Consumption | |
| March 19 | Jeremiah Bortles M.N. | Palmyra | 26 | Consumption | |
| March 19 | William A. Jordan U.N. | Palmyra | 2 | Scarlet fever | |
| March 22 | Catalena Keith U.N. | Palmyra | 4 | Scarlet fever | |
| March 25 | Sarah Smith U.N. | Palmyra | 3 | Scarlet fever | |
| March | Victoria Pierce U.N. | Palmyra | 4 | Scarlet fever | |
| March | Casey (female) M.F. | Palmyra | Housekeeper | ||
| March | Sutton (male) | U.N. Palmyra | 4 | Scarlet fever | |
| March 27 | Prudence Durfee M.N. | Palmyra | 82 | Old age | |
| March 29 | Dexter P. Sanford U.N. | Palmyra | 6 | Scarlet fever | |
| April 2 | Nathan A. Keith U.N. | Palmyra | 1 | Scarlet fever | |
| April 4 | Andrew Sanford U.N. | Palmyra | 3 | Scarlet fever | |
| April 11 | Phebe Adela Pulman U.N. | Palmyra | 4 | Scarlet fever | |
| April 14 | George Allcorn Jr. U.N. | Palmyra | 2 | Measles | |
| April 15 | Frances Tibbits U.N. | Palmyra | 2 5/6 | Measles | |
| April 20 | Hannah Vincent Mead | Palmyra | 3 2/3 | Measles & inflamation-lungs | |
| April 22 | Amos Goldsmith U.N. | Palmyra | 10 | Congestive fever | |
| April 24 | Clarence Bortles U.N. | Palmyra | 4 mo. | ||
| April 25 | Caleb B. Cole U.N. | Palmyra | 15 | Farmer | Measles |
| April 28 | L. DeForest U.N. | Palmyra | 1 | Croup | |
| May 4 | Polly Maria Hicks U.N. | Palmyra | 24 | Consumption | |
| May 5 | Lyman Hicks U.N. | Palmyra | 30 | Farmer | Consumption |
| May 17 | Mark Perigo M.N. | Castile | 39 | Mechanic | Intemperance |
| May 21 | Mrs. Andrew Fergey M.F. | Palmyra | Housekeeper | ||
| May 21 | George Gregg M.N. | Palmyra | 24 | Engraver | Consumption |
| May 22 | Mrs. Shubal Smith M.N. | Palmyra | 33 | Housekeeper | Consumption |
| May 31 | Mrs. Lester C. Godard M.N. | Palmyra | 35 | Housekeeper | Consumption |
| May | Mr. Vail M.N. | Palmyra | 50 | Laborer | Intemperance |
| May | Lloyd (male) | ||||
| May | Warner (male) U. | Palmyra | Dropsy on brain | ||
| June 5 | Simmons (male) U.N. | Palmyra | 5 | Drowned | |
| June 5 | Whipple (male) U.N. | Palmyra | 5 | Drowned | |
| June 8 | Corning (child of J.W.) | Palmyra | infant (male) | ||
| June 8 | Nickerson (Child of Eli) | Palmyra | infant (male) | ||
| June 11 | George S. Brown U.N. | Palmyra | 4 | Scarlet fever | |
| June 17 | James Lakey U.N. | Palmyra | 20 | Farmer | Fever |
| June 23 | George Pierce U.N. | E. Palmyra | 10 mo. | General debility | |
| July 9 | Jessie J. Jeffrey U.N. | Palmyra | 14 | Scarlet fever | |
| July 12 | Ann Wills M.F. | Palmyra | 30 | Consumption | |
| July 15 | (Negro male) M.N. | Erie Canal | 69 | Boatman | Asiatic cholera |
| July 17 | Maria Hicks M.N. | Palmyra | 30 | Dropsy | |
| July 24 | James Clark (Negro) M.N. | Palmyra | 40 | Laborer | Asiatic cholera |
| August 2 | Horan (child of Michael) | Palmyra | infant | ||
| August 18 | Mrs. Pratt M.N. | Palmyra | 45 | Housekeeper | Dropsy |
| August 21 | Marilla Sanford M.N. | Palmyra | 56 | Dysentery | |
| August 22 | Helen Eliza Oysterbank U.N. | Palmyra | 2 5/12 | Dysentery | |
| August 25 | Joh Little U.N. | Palmyra | 12 | Scarlet fever | |
| August 26 | Gilbert Williams U.N. | Palmyra | 8 | Scarlet fever | |
| August 26 | Henry W. Bowen U.N. | Palmyra | 1 5/12 | ||
| August 28 | Palmer (daughter of Philip) | Palmyra | scarlet fever | ||
| August | Whipple (female) U.N. | Palmyra | infant | ||
| August | Barron (child of Orrin) | Palmyra | 2 | Dysentery | |
| September | Wolcot (male) U.N. | Palmyra | infant | Croup | |
| September 10 | Hannah Sexton M.N. | Palmyra | 46 | Housekeeper | Inflamation of intestines |
| October 4 | P. Love (male) U.N. | Palmyra | infant | Congestive fever | |
| October 8 | Weltha A. Wilcox M.N. | Palmyra | 57 | Housekeeper | Consumption |
| October 9 | Kelly (child of Hiram) U.N. | Palmyra | infant | Dropsy | |
| October 11 | Orrin Jagger U.N. | E. Palmyra | 2 | Croup | |
| October 30 | William H. Baker U.N. | Palmyra | 7/12 | Scarlet fever | |
| October | Soper (male) U.N. | Palmyra | Brain fever | ||
| November 3 | Pomeroy T. Durfee U.N. | Palmyra | 4 | Scarlet fever | |
| November 16 | Enoch W. Marsh U.N. | Palmyra | 31 | Medical | student Consumption |
| November 20 | Frances E. Allen U.N. | Palmyra | 4 1/2 | Scarlet fever | |
| November | Kellogg (child of Erastus) U.N. | Palmyra | 2 (male) | Scarlet fever | |
| November | Kellogg (child of Erastus) | Palmyra | Infant (female) | Scarlet fever | |
| November | Porter (child of John) U.N. | Palmyra | 3 (male) | Scarlet fever | |
| December 7 | Peter Harris M.N. | Palmyra | 72 | Farmer | Scarlet fever |
| December 18 | Jones (male) U.N. | Palmyra | Ulcer (internal) |
PALMYRA DEATHS 1849: prepared by Debra Wiegand of Macedon, NY
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